That being said, the metaverse is still around, and Microsoft has a new feature for it. Immersive events in Microsoft Teams are now available in public preview.

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The metaverse has captured public attention since Zuckerberg, the concept's most vocal backer, staked his giant social network's future on it last year. He's pitched it as a realm built by ...

As things stand, there’s no “metaverse law,” and it’s not an area that lawyers can be licensed in—at least not yet. But bad actors are already attempting to offer legal services without ...

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The term metaverse was first coined in the 1992 novel Snow Crash, and the 2003 virtual world platform Second Life is often described as the first metaverse. Stephen Spielberg, in his 2018 film ...

In the metaverse, many users will likely be communicating in their own languages, with potential AI-based language translators. Language technology powered by AI can perpetuate bias if we are not ...

The metaverse, as I’ve explained before, is part of the next iteration of the internet some are calling Web 3.0 —and it promises to upend everything as we know it. Within the next few years ...

This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. How an undercover content moderator polices the metaverse ...